Today at 6 PM in the Cypriot city of Paphos, on the Stelios Kyriakides stadium, Ukraine's youth national team (players born no later than 2006) will start their campaign in the elite round of Euro-2023 (U-17) qualification with a match against their Cypriot counterparts. On March 10, our team will play against Ireland, and on the 13th — against Italy.

In the elite round, 32 teams are divided into eight groups, with 15 spots available for the final stage, which will take place from May 17 to June 2 in Hungary. Eight group winners and seven runners-up with the best results will advance to the finals, along with the host country.

"I focused on studying the Cypriot team that we'll face in our first match. I paid less attention to analyzing Italy's and Ireland's teams since watching their upcoming matches wouldn't make much sense due to significant changes in youth football over a year. We will base our strategy on their opening round game," — head coach of Ukraine's U-17 national team, Yuriy Moroz, noted in an interview for the official website of the Ukrainian Football Association.

For this camp, 20 players were invited.

Ukraine's U-17 National Team Roster

Goalkeepers: Markian Bakus ("Rukh" Lviv), Vyacheslav Surkis ("Zorya" Luhansk).

Defenders: Vladyslav Zakharchenko, Maxim Korobov, Denis Diky (all — "Zorya" Luhansk), Kyrylo Dyhtyar ("Metalist" Kharkiv), Danilo Garaia ("Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk), Artur Bakay ("Salzburg", Austria).

Midfielders: Viktor Tsukanov ("Shakhtar" Donetsk), Danilo Khan ("Dnipro-1" Dnipropetrovsk), Hennadiy Synchuk ("Metalist" Kharkiv), Bohdan Budko (AZ, Netherlands), Kyrylo Osypenko, David Bilyi, Danilo Yshchenko, Vladyslav Kalin (all — "Zorya" Luhansk).

Forwards: Kyrylo Pashko, Matviy Ponomarenko (both — "Zorya" Luhansk), Danilo Kaidalov ("Metalist" Kharkiv), Vladyslav Rusnak ("Siena", Italy).

Elite Round Schedule for Euro-2023 (U-17) Group 6

March 7, 2023

Italy — Ireland (3 PM)

Cyprus — Ukraine (6 PM)

March 10, 2023

Italy — Cyprus (3 PM)

Ukraine — Ireland (3 PM)

March 13, 2023

Ukraine — Italy (3 PM)

Ireland — Cyprus (3 PM)

All match times are in Kyiv time.

Euro-2023 (U-17). Elite Round

Group 1: Serbia, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus.

Group 2: Montenegro, Wales, Scotland, Iceland.

Group 3: Netherlands, England, Denmark, Northern Ireland.

Group 4: Spain, Germany, Turkey, Finland.

Group 5: Portugal, Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia.

Group 6: Italy, Ukraine, Cyprus, Ireland.

Group 7: Belgium, Norway, Croatia, Slovenia.

Group 8: France, Switzerland, Latvia, Albania.

As a reminder, in the qualifying round of Euro-2023 (U-17), Ukraine's youth national team under Yuriy Moroz's leadership secured first place in their group, outscoring Azerbaijan (5:2), Liechtenstein (7:0) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (1:1).